When I was a teenager, I was asked to do something no teenager really wants to do: watch my step-cousin…
Art Guide Australia | Interview: Mikala Dwyer on mysticism, daydreaming and ‘not-knowing’
Vivid yet mysterious, Mikala Dwyer’s installations connect a range influences and curiosities including the mystical, occultism, constructivism, Dada, Bauhaus, memory…
Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Mervyn Bishop on a life of photography
“Black and white photography has always been my…I suppose it’s just kind of my life,” says Mervyn Bishop on his…
The Age | In a world of wonder, Piccinini asks us to value more than beauty
Newly dusted off, the deserted ballroom above Flinders Street Station is an arresting and quietly emotive space to encounter Patricia…
Disclaimer | Iterations: John Nixon
Not far from where St Kilda beach forms a firm line against the land, inside the Palais Theatre, which is…
Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Suzanne Archer on responding to life
“I guess that is the thread, that I am very open to influences that come into my life, you know,…
Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Robert Owen on colour and oneness
“Art is this amazing subject,” says Robert Owen. “It comes from different people and it contributes to cultural identity in…
The Age | An unfinished landscape: She-Oak show sheds new light on classics
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism Among plenty of paintings of the Australian landscape there are unexpected, flooring moments: one is…
Art Guide Australia | Interview: Matthew Harris on camp, class and culture
From repetitions of flowers to grim reapers riding unicorns to cartoon devils gleefully inflicting pain on their enemies, the paintings…
The Age | ‘I’m trying to crack a code’: mum’s brain injury inspires artist
Jennifer Arnold’s words unfold, like inscrutable clues, across her daughter’s paintings. Written in a flowing script, the phrase “déar Dé-light”…
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